I’ve had a few security “issues” of late is seems, which means some of my more recent content has been lost.
However I’m looking on this as an opportunity to start afresh, though I have imported some of my old content just to flesh things out a little more.
I’m going to be keeping small quippy anecdotes to Twitter, and will display those in the sidebar accordingly once I get everything sorted.
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Ok I’ll admit it – I’m very indecisive. I can hardly ever leave things alone, and I have to fiddle, as I can never decide what looks better, or what I want to do etc. It’s very prevalent in my relationship with Smoo – we’re both the same, and we both find it hard to come to a decision on things (to be honest, its normally on really inane things like what movie to watch etc… anything important we’re normally pretty good at deciding the correct course of action).
So… as you can see… I’ve fiddled with my blog… again. Yep that makes it the first changeover of 2009, but within the last 2-3 months I’ve messed with the design about four times altogether. (Sorry!)
My reasoning is that I’m trying to find a design that’s easy to navigate, but easy to read and get to where you’re trying to go (if that makes sense). Previously I’ve had to fiddle with plugins because things wouldn’t link back to the homepage etc, and it really started to piss me off. This design is different.
I’ve gone for a magazine-style layout to make things more legible… and I’m prettymuch done. I’ve also culled my categories down to 7, as they just weren’t necessary. Although with the categories displayed on the homepage completely separately, it means that there are some duplicate thumbnails displaying at the moment (that will change when I post a bit more regularly as I want to limit the amount of categories I assign to a particular post).
I’ve also added a few new plugins… one of the coolest ones being the Insights plugin that allows you to search and insert content into your post as you write it. This allows me to add the following image from flickr without leaving the edit screen:
You can also search and embed Google Maps (API needed), Video (Youtube), Wikipedia and more.
Anyway I hope you prefer this layout – if you find anything confusing, please let me know and I’ll tweak things as best as possible to make things easier to read and navigate etc.
All the best for the new year everyone!
Jay
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However the Season 3 preview is up, and you can watch that after the jump (purposefully done so that anyone that hasn’t seen Seasons 1 and/or 2 yet don’t get anything spoilt for them). Enjoy!
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As you may, or may not have noticed depending on how often (if at all) you visit, I’ve had a bit of a fiddle with new themes recently, and have stuck with the V5 theme by Yichi.
The new look of my blog
This is a great theme, although not widget ready unfortunately – I also had to edit the theme a fair bit to get certain things working, and remove broken features – and the initial feedback I had from some Plurk buddies was fairly positive too. :)
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Jeez… trailer after trailer lately.
Now, I’m a big BSG fan… and when I heard a prequel series was going to be released, I even made a little fanboy “Squee” noise.
However after checking out the trailer for Caprica… all I could think was “Meh!”. I hope its better than the trailer makes it out to be.
Anyway for your enjoyment, here it is:
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Well I haven’t blogged in a while, but then I haven’t had that much to blog about recently – life has trundled along and been generally uneventful… so I’ve decided to do a quick blog about loads of things I’ve been up to (that aren’t necessarily important).
Firstoff, another of my reviews is up over at Geeks of Doom.com, this time taking a look at the Guinness Book of Records: Gamer’s Edition.
Secondly, I’ve started using a website called Plurk in the past week… and I’m completely addicted to it already! The site is basically a microblogging site verymuch like Twitter, but with threaded conversations based around your “plurks” (twitter would call them “tweets”).
I have to say I’m loving it – there’s much more of a community feel to the site, and its great for sharing media like Youtube videos and photos etc. I’d highly recommend it, especially over Twitter what with its continuing downtime. You can check out my Plurk widget at the top right corner of my blog. :)
And lastly, I found a great image manipulation website that adds a cartoon-style to any uploaded photo… which makes it look a lot like the filming style in A Scanner Darkly… gotta say I love it, and have been fiddling with a few photos of me… take a look:
To get the desired effects as above, use the sketch feature first (set the brightness fairly low – it makes the sketch lines darker)… then click on the colour option and set it at medium/low.
Anyway thats all from me for the moment… I’ve got some more reviewing to do, but cashflow issues aren’t allowing me to do much yet. :( There will be a review of Ninja Gaiden 2 soon though… so keep your eyes peeled for it. :)
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